Robby Benson: Prince Valiant

Quotes 

• Prince Valiant : [laughing]  Don't you ever get tired, Denys?

  Denys : Not when I'm having this much fun.

• Prince Valiant : You're always banging yourself on something or other, aren't you?

  Denys : It toughens me up. I was born for battle.

• King Donovan : [enthusiastically]  He is my son. My flesh and blood. I love him!

  Prince Valiant : Oh, I see. You show your love... by beating him?

  King Donovan : I do not beat him; I discipline him. There is a difference. He must learn to be strong. He will be king one day. My father hit me when I was a child and look what I've become. A king, beloved by my people!

  Prince Valiant : Would they love you as much if they could have seen you beating an innocent child? If they could've seen a grown man hitting a small boy hard enough, to blanken his eye?

  King Donovan : What right have you to tell me how to raise my child?

  Prince Valiant : If beating your child is such a good thing, why do you do it in secret?

  Denys : [standing and bowing]  I mean no disrespect, Your Majety, but... when you beat a child, you do not teach him to be strong.

  Prince Valiant : You teach him to be afraid.

  King Donovan : My son will have to live with fear as I have. As any man does.

  Prince Valiant : Yes, Your Majesty. There are many things in this world a child must learn to fear. Bur surely, his own parents should not be among them.

  King Donovan : I love my son. He must know that.

  Prince Valiant : Well, how can he when you teach him that there's no safety in the world, not even in the arms of the people who gave him life?

  Denys : [starting to cry, causing Donovan to dry his tears]  I know this to be true, Your Majesty. Because deep inside... I can still feel the pain of every time my father hit me.